The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic ProgressHaynes, George Edmund
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The Negro at Work in New York City: A Study in Economic Progress
Haynes, George Edmund
African American businesspeople; African Americans -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York; African Americans -- History
Lake George, Negroes in battle of, 66
Lodgers, natural members and, 62
Consist of, 63
Natural members in families, 62-63
Number of lodgers in families, 64
Migration to cities, 15-17
Secondary causes of, 29
Nativity of Negroes, of New York State, 57
Of New York City, 58-59
Of West Indians, 58
Of business proprietors, 100
Negro population of New York, table showing growth of, 47
Distribution of 2,500 families in, 52-53
Segregation of Negro, 48-51
Negro, riot of 1712, 95
So-called plot of 1741, 67
New Amsterdam Colony, slaves as laborers in, 66
Slaves owned land in, 67
Occupations, history of, 66-69
In 1890 and 1900, 69-71
In 1905, 72
Proportion of males and females in, 73
Tables of, 71-72, 74
Reasons for Negroes coming to New York, 27-28
Tables of, 27, 31-32
Slaves, as farm laborers and stevedores, 66
Able to hold land, 67
Forbidden to trade, 94
Soil, divorce of Negro from, 18-19
United Public Waiters, 68
Becomes Beneficial Association, 69
United States, city growth in, 13
Wages, in domestic and personal service, 78-79
In hotel service, 81
Table of, 80-81
Union rates, 82
Wage-earners, sex and age, 54-55
Efficiency of male, 83
Efficiency of female, 84
Efficiency of skilled, 88
Marital condition of, 60-61
Tables of efficiency of, 85, 87
Wilcox, Professor, quoted, 14
Work, M.N., quoted, 40-41
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